Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Mobile Metal – Battleground: The Greatest Tank Duels in History, ed. Steven J. Zaloga (Osprey Publishing 2011)
• Allum’s Album – The Collector’s Cabinet: Tales, Facts and Fictions from the World of Antiques, Marc Allum (Icon Books 2013)
• Aschen Passion – Death in Venice and Other Stories, Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke (1988)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
The Tridentine Mass is the Roman Rite Mass that appears in typical editions of the Roman Missal published from 1570 to 1962. — Tridentine Mass, Wikipedia
A 30°-60°-90° right triangle, with sides 1 : √3 : 2, can be divided into three identical copies of itself:
30°-60°-90° Right Triangle — a rep-3 rep-tile…
And if it can be divided into three, it can be divided into nine:
…that is also a rep-9 rep-tile
Five of the sub-copies serve as the seed for an interesting fractal:
Fractal stage #1
Fractal stage #2
Fractal stage #3
Fractal #4
Fractal #5
Fractal #6
Fractal #6
Tridentine cross (animated)
Tridentine cross (static)
This is a different kind of rep-tile:
Noniamond trapezoid
But it yields the same fractal cross:
Fractal #1
Fractal #2
Fractal #3
Fractal #4
Fractal #5
Fractal #6
Tridentine cross (animated)
Tridentine cross (static)
Elsewhere other-available:
• Holey Trimmetry — another fractal cross
Abstract: The game of chess is the most widely-studied domain in the history of artificial intelligence. The strongest programs are based on a combination of sophisticated search techniques, domain-specific adaptations, and handcrafted evaluation functions that have been refined by human experts over several decades. In contrast, the AlphaGo Zero program recently achieved superhuman performance in the game of Go, by tabula rasa reinforcement learning from games of self-play. In this paper, we generalise this approach into a single AlphaZero algorithm that can achieve, tabula rasa, superhuman performance in many challenging domains. Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and convincingly defeated a world-champion program in each case. — “Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm”, 5/XII/2017.
Previously pre-posted (please peruse):
• Slug is a Drug — Collins Complete Guide to British Coastal Wildlife (2012)
• Lautlos und fein rann der rostrot gefärbte Sand durch die gläserne Enge, und da er in der oberen Höhlung zur Neige ging, hatte sich dort ein kleiner, reißender Strudel gebildet. — Thomas Mann, Der Tod in Venedig (1912)
• Silently, subtly, the rust-red sand trickled through the narrow glass aperture, dwindling away out of the upper vessel, in which a little whirling vortex had formed. — “Death in Venice” (translated by David Luke)
• The past 16 years have involved a lot of questioning and reflecting, both in terms of what it means to be “good”, but also on the various racist myths about Muslims. — Let’s be clear: Muslims are neither good nor bad. We’re just human, Farah in terms of Elahi, The Guardian, 14/xii/2017.
Elsewhere other-available:
• Oh My Guardian #1
• Oh My Guardian #2
• Oh My Guardian #3
• Reds under the Thread
This is an L-triomino, or shape created from three squares laid edge-to-edge:
When you divide each square like this…
You can create a fractal like this…
Stage #1
Stage #2
Stage #3
Stage #4
Stage #5
Stage #6
Stage #7
Stage #8
Stage #9
Stage #10
Animated fractal
Here are more fractals created from the triomino:
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And here is a different shape created from three squares:
And some fractals created from it:
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And a third shape created from three squares:
And some fractals created from it:
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Previously pre-posted (please peruse):
• Tri-Way to L
• Square Routes
• Square Routes Revisited
• Square Routes Re-Revisited
Currently listening…
• Ilm Beogdé, Best Of (1994)
• The Brandywines, Ludlow (1988)
• Murine, A Glass Alga (1997)
• Ichtherion, Et Agnus Vincet (1975)
• Xmode, Giftzwerg (1982)
• Uar Csolt, Marginsur (2010)
• Thomas Skinner Orchestra, Wasidu (1959)
• Elxuve, Howdja (1991)
• Iwri, Iwri 2 (1979)
• Henkerkunst, Gänzehaut (2011)
• Albion Chimes, Soltrip (1969)
• Vihol, F.E.S. (1982)
• Aitmao w Niau, Celebes (2012)
Previously pre-posted:
Toxic Turntable #1 • #2 • #3 • #4 • #5 • #6 • #7 • #8 • #9 • #10 • #11 • #12 •
I’ve used butterfly-images to create fractals. Now I’ve found a butterfly-image in a fractal. The exciting story begins with a triabolo, or shape created from three isoceles right triangles:
The triabolo is a rep-tile, or shape that can be divided into smaller copies of itself:
In this case, it’s a rep-9 rep-tile, divisible into nine smaller copies of itself. And each copy can be divided in turn:
But what happens when you sub-divide, then discard copies? A fractal happens:
Fractal crosses (animated)
Fractal crosses (static)
That’s a simple example; here is a more complex one:
Fractal butterflies #1
Fractal butterflies #2
Fractal butterflies #3
Fractal butterflies #4
Fractal butterflies #5
Fractal butterflies (animated)
Some of the gaps in the fractal look like butterflies (or maybe large moths). And each butterfly is escorted by four smaller butterflies. Another fractal has gaps that look like bats escorted by smaller bats:
Fractal bats (animated)
Fractal bats (static)
Elsewhere other-posted:
• Gif Me Lepidoptera — fractals using butterflies
• Holey Trimmetry — more fractal crosses
…γῆς ἱδρῶτα θάλασσαν… — Ἐμπεδοκλῆς
“The sea is the sweat of the earth.” — Empedocles (c. 495–435 BC), Fragments 165
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 